This article describes how to move the paging file and print spooler to
another hard disk. You may want to do this if you install a new hard disk
that is faster than the hard disk currently storing your paging and print
spooler files.

Go to File Manager, select the drive on which the new spool directory
will be created and then create the directory on the drive defined in
the Registry value DefaultSpoolDirectory. For example, if in the
Registry under DefaultSpoolDirectory the value "F:\SPOOL" was entered,
create a directory called SPOOL on the F: drive.

If the new directory is located on an NTFS drive, please assign the
appropriate permissions to the spool directory. For additional information, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Stop and Restart the Spooler service in the Services section of Control
Panel.

To verify the correct operation:

Start File Manager, and then click
the spool directories on the appropriate drive.

Start a program (for example, Write) that has a document over 100 Kb in size.

Print
the document and, while printing, immediately press ALT+TAB to move
back to the File Manager window

Two files with the extensions .shd and .spl should be displayed in the right pane under the spool directory. After the print job is complete, these two files are deleted by Windows. If no files are displayed, print a larger file.

Verify registry settings and NTFS
permissions to confirm that the spool directory resides on NTFS partition.For additional information, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Go to File Manager, click the drive on which the new spool directories
will be created, and then create the directories on the drive defined in
each of the printer's SpoolDirectory registry value.

For example, if the value
under SpoolDirectory in the registry is "F:\SPOOL\PRINTQ1", you must create a directory called SPOOL on the
F: drive, and then create a subdirectory under SPOOL called PRINTQ1.

If the new directories are located on an NTFS drive, please assign the
appropriate permissions to the spool directories. For additional information about the appropriate entries, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Stop and Restart the Spooler service in the Services section of Control Panel.

To verify the correct operation:

Start File Manager, and then click
the spool directories on the appropriate drive.

Start a program (for example, Write) that has a document over 100 Kb in size.

Print
the document and, while printing, immediately press ALT+TAB to move
back to the File Manager window.

Two files with the extensions .shd and .spl should be displayed in the right pane under the spool directory. After the print job is complete, these two files are deleted by Windows. If no files are displayed, print a larger file.

Verify registry settings and NTFS
permissions to confirm that the spool directory resides on NTFS partition.For additional information, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

NOTE: Neither DefaultSpoolDirectory nor SpoolDirectory are set by default.
The global default location for all printers spool files is
%SystemRoot%\System32\Spool\Printers. DefaultSpoolDirectory defines a new
global default location for all printers to put their spool files.
SpoolDirectory defines a new printer-specific location for spool files
that overrides the global default on a per-printer basis.

An actual directory name needs to be specified; you cannot specifying only the root
directory (for example: "C:\"). Instead, you must use
C:\Directory, where "Directory" is the name of the directory you want
to use. If you do specify the root directory as the default spool
location, spooling reverts back to the %SystemRoot%\System32\Spool\Printers
directory.

The Windows Resource Kit documentation does not indicate this nor does
it explicitly state that only a directory will work (see p.226 and pages 637 to
640).